The city of Townsville! It's late at night and our 3 favorite superpowers girls are having dinner with their father and creator, professor Utonium.

"And then I beat hit Fuzzy in right in the face so he looked even stupider than he already is." Buttercup said. The girls were telling the professor all the crimes they had been preventing today.

"That's all wonderful, girls. But didnt you do anything else? Anything that didn't involve violence?" The professor asked.

"Well, nothing worth of mentioning." Blossom said.

"Well I'm finished eating. Can I go watch TV?" Buttercup asked.

"Of course. But you have to brush your teeth before going to sleep." The professor said.

Buttercup did as she was told and soon her sisters joined her. However as soon as they turned off the TV they heard an explosion in the kitchen.

"Professor, is everything all..." Blossom stopped in mid sentence. In the kitchen were Brick and Butch holding the professor and were about to take him away. They just quickly glanced at the girls and left, taking a terrified professor with them. It all happened so fast that the girls had no time to react.

With the boys:

"Hello, boys eh... What do want? Could we talk this out without anybody getting hurt?... Especially me?" The professor said, his voice shaking.

But the rowdyruff boys kept quiet. The professor kept begging them to spare him but still they said nothing. They arrived at an old abandoned shack. Brick and Butch took the professor to a room in the back. In there was a single bed. Laying on top of it was the blue ruff Boomer. He was sweating a lot and breathing heavily with his eyes closed. He was obviously suffering.

"You!" Brick finally said pointing at the professor. "Heal him."

"Huh? That's what you wanted me for? Well, I'ld love to but..."

"PLEASE! We don't know who else we should ask. HIM didn't want to and Mojo is stupid! We'll do anything!" Butch interrupted.

The professor looked into each of the boy's eyes and saw true concern and fear for their brother's life. He couldn't just let them witness their own brother's death!

"Alright. But I need you boys to take us back to my lab. I have all my stuff there. Do you understand?" Professor Utonium asked.

Without a word, Butch grabbed Boomer and Brick grabbed the professor, and they flew back to his house, fortunately not encoutering the powerpuff girls, who had started looking for them a short time after the kidnapping but didnt figure out where to look. Or else that would have really wasted precious time as Boomer was suffering more and more every minute. When they finally got to the lab the professor immediately got to work.

"First I need to know what caused this. Do you have any idea why he could be sick?" He asked.

"Well yesterday we were doing what we usually do, and then we accidentally crashed into mojos lab and destroyed a container with some weird liquid and Boomer got soaked with it. After or actually while Mojo was giving us one of his long angry speeches we left. At first everything was alright but this morning Boomer started to get weaker and weaker." Brick explained.

"I see. So Mojo has developed some sort of antidote x. But I figured this might happen so I already have a remedy for it. I made it for my girls but I think you need it more than me right now. Plus I can make more whenever I want." The professor said and went to a cupboard and took a bottle with blue liquid inside and filled a syringe with said liquid. He then proceeded to inject it into Boomer's arm. After a little while Boomer's breathing became more relaxed and he opened his eyes.

"Wha...? Where am I? What happened?" The blue ruff said obviously tired.

"BOOMER!" Brick and Butch quickly went for their brother and hugged him, tears rolling down their cheeks.

"BRICK! BUTCH! I WAS SO SCARED! I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DIE AGAIN!" Boomer cried, also in tears.

"DON'T WORRY! YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT!" The three of them were crying loudly in relief and joy.

'How sweet' the professor thougt. 'They are not as corrupt as most villains and really appreciate each other. Maybe them and my girls are not that different after all.'

"HA! FOUND YOU!" Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup had suddenly appeared behind the professor and the boys.

"I KNEW YOU WOULD RETURN HERE AT SOME POINT! THE CRIMINAL ALWAYS RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME AND... What's going on? And how come you're here and unharmed, professor?" Blossom said, taking a closer look at what she was seeing. The ruffs hadn't even payed the girls any attention.

"Girls, it's alright. The boys just really needed help. They didn't do anything wrong. And as for you boys, Boomer needs rest so I suggest you sleep here tonight. You can sleep in my room." Professor Utonium said.

"WHAT?!" The three girls exclaimed at the same time.

"Don't worry girls, I don't think they will do anything bad today. They will be to tired and worried for Boomer's health to do so." The professor said.

After he explained the girls the situation and what had happened to him and the boys the girls finally understood why the professor wanted those three troublemakers to stay.

"I see. Well it WOULD be cruel to have them sleep in that shack, with Boomer being sick and all." Blossom said.

"Poor Boomer. It must be horrible not to have a parent to rely on." Bubbles said.

"Still I don't think it's a good idea. Plus where will YOU sleep, professor?" Buttercup said.

"On the couch. And even if I didn't trust them I can't bring myself to leave them somewhere else in this kind of situation. Don't worry, I will be alright." The professor told the girls.

Finally everybody went to sleep. Everybody except for one person. Bubbles had stayed awake waiting for everybody to truly fall asleep so she could do something without anybody noticing. When she was sure everybody was asleep, she grabbed her favorite stuffed animal Octi and went to the professor's bedroom. There on the bed were the three rowdyruff boys covered with a blanket, with Brick in the middle. Bubbles silently floated towards Boomer and put Octi in between his arms, careful not to wake him up.

"Goodnight, Boomie. I hope you get better soon." Bubbles whispered and gave him a kiss on the forehead. To her surprise Boomer smiled in his sleep at that which made her giggle. She then went to bed herself and fell asleep.